Author(s)

Mesude Saglam¹, Burcin Bayram², Ziya Saglam³, Hanasli Gur⁴

¹Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey.
²Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.
³Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Aksaray, Aksaray, Turkey.
⁴Department of Engineering in Physics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.

In a recent work, we calculated the magnetic field inside a free electron due to its spin, and found it to be about B = 8.3 × 10¹³ T. In the present study we calculate the spinning speed of a free electron in the current loop model. We show that spinning speed is equal to the speed of light. Therefore it is shown that if electron was not spinning the mass of electron would be zero. But since spinning is an unseparable part of an electron, we say that mass of electron is non-zero and is equal to (m = 9.11 × 10⁻²⁸ g).

Spinning Speed, Intrinsic Current, Intrinsic Magnetic Field, The Intrinsic Flux of Electron, Current Loop Model

Saglam, M. , Bayram, B. , Saglam, Z. and Gur, H. (2020) Calculation of the Spinning Speed of a Free Electron. Journal of Modern Physics, 11, 9-15. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2020.111002.